Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Fact Ranking

Dear students!We
have developed a quiz which will allow us to tackle one of our
main scientific research problems and we would really appreciate your
participation and help in our experiment!

The
problem is thatthere is too much information
available on the web. How do we decide which facts are most important for a specific object?

Just a quick example. Let's assume we have the
following two facts:

(1) Albert Einstein is a physicist.

(2) Albert Einstein is a vegetarian.

Which
of the two facts is more important or relevant? This is difficult to
answer, simply because the truth often lies in the eye of the beholder.
For a vegetarian, maybe the second fact is more important. But, what
about the most common opinion? What would the mainstream think?
Probably, most people would say that fact (1) in general is more
important.

We selected about 500 popular concepts from Wikipedia and would like to gather as much input as
possible, regarding the ranking of their facts. Therefore, we really appreciate your help in
this task!

There
is no right or wrong answer. Just vote as you think it seems right for
you. Afterwards, we will aggregate all votes from all participants to
determine a general (mainstream) relevance for the presented facts.

You
may pause at any time and continue later. As you go, you will get score points which depend on
how well you've answered the questions and how many concepts you've
covered.

Please do also spread the word and share the task with your friends and
family. The more participants, the more valid our ground truth will be.
While you are playing this game, your inputs will contribute to our
scientific experiment. Together, we will build a first corpus that will
help our scientific community in evaluating different fact ranking
strategies!